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15 January 2014
News and notes
German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
Wikimedia Germany, the largest national affiliate, has authored an extensive critique of the Funds Dissemination Committee's process for issuing funding recommendations for the various large organizations in the movement.
Technology report
Architecture Summit schedule published
The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
Op-ed
Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.
In the media
Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the
New York Times
Wikipedia's recent decline in readership, possibly due to Google's Knowledge Graph. ... Judith Newman in the
New York Times
asks "What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?"
Traffic report
The Hours are Ours
We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.
WikiProject report
WikiProject Sociology
This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.
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